Economics at the Movies - Too Big to Fail
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A big thank you to my former student Mike Dawes, who recommends the film of the book ‘Too Big to Fail’. The made-for-TV film has recently been shown on Sky Anytime, where you may have caught it, but if not there are some trailers and extracts available here on HBO’s website, as well as a synopsis.
Mike has also found a YouTube extract of a scene in the movie where US Treasury officials (Hank Paulson, Neel Kashkari, Jim Wilkinson) are deciding how to break the news of the AIG bailout in a press release and, in his words “there is a Scooby-Doo style unravelling of the recession which for 2 minutes is possibly one of the best explanations I have heard. They also neatly explain Credit-Default Swaps which is equally simple and may help those who were struggling to understand it.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book which led to the film is available from Amazon’s US store here.
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